Peay v. Seigler
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Witherspoon, J., Fairfield, Action by Nicholas A. Peay, jr., against Wm. J. Seigler, as administrator of Fnglish P. Jenkins, and his heirs at law, for possession of a tract of land. The Circuit decree is as follows: The Rev. Will M. Waller, of Wilmore, Kentucky, on May the 7th, 1895, conveyed by deed to the plaintiff a tract of twenty acres of land, at Rongtown, in Fairfield County.
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Before Witherspoon, J., Fairfield, Action by Nicholas A. Peay, jr., against Wm. J. Seigler, as administrator of Fnglish P. Jenkins, and his heirs at law, for possession of a tract of land. The Circuit decree is as follows: The Rev. Will M. Waller, of Wilmore, Kentucky, on May the 7th, 1895, conveyed by deed to the plaintiff a tract of twenty acres of land, at Rongtown, in Fairfield County. The consideration expressed in said deed is $400, the plaintiff paying $100 in cash and executing his three notes of $100 each, payable in one, two, and three years. During' the latter part of May, 1895,…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Chief JUSTICE McIver.
This action was originally commenced on the 31st day of May, 1895, against English P. Jenkins and Wm. J. Seigler, who was his tenant, for the recovery of the possession of a certain tract of land, containing twenty acres, more or less, situate in the county of Fairfield, in Eongtowu, South Carolina. Seigler having *503been made a formal party, as tenant in possession, Jenkins alone answered, setting up two defenses: 1st. A general denial. 2d. That he was the equitable owner of the land in controversy, under a contract for the…
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